The Indiana Supreme Court held that employer-provided health-insurance benefits constitute an asset once they have vested
in a party to the marriage, and addressed for the first time the possible methods of valuing these benefits in marriage dissolution.
This conclusion led one justice to dissent because it disrupts existing dissolution property division law.

A Terre Haute attorney wants the nation’s highest court to review two appellate cases out of Indiana and Wisconsin that
uphold judicial canons and pose free speech questions about what judicial candidates can say or do when campaigning for office.

The Indiana Supreme Court ordered the post-conviction court to hold a new hearing for a Mexican man who claimed he didn’t
mean to plead guilty to two felonies and did so only because of faulty interpreting in court.

Three Indiana Supreme Court justices created a new requirement as an exercise of supervisory powers when it comes to informing
future defendants about the dangers of proceeding pro se, leaving two justices to dissent because the new requirement provides
no guidance as to what trial courts must do or say.

The Indiana Supreme Court granted transfer to a man’s case in order to address the application of harmless error to
Sixth Amendment violations involving confronting those who create laboratory reports.

Judicial recusals are a serious topic, but Indiana law professor Charles Geyh can’t help but wonder how much lawyers
and the public really know about requests and reasons for judges to step away from a case.

The trial court was correct to find that the public interest in preventing fraudulent use of driver’s licenses trumps
some people’s desire to have their commonly used names on their licenses, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled today.

At a time when the legal community is caught up in controversies about how judges are selected and whether they can remain
impartial, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has weighed in on that national debate and ruled that states have the authority
to self-regulate on those issues as it relates to judicial canons.

Every summer, an attorney-authored review analyzes and highlights the Indiana Supreme Court’s activity during the past
year. But only rarely does that report come at a time when the state’s highest court is seeing change.

The nearly three-dozen attorneys who’ve applied to become the state’s newest justice sets a record for the past
25 years, but it falls short of the number who’d applied for an Indiana Supreme Court post a quarter century ago.

The Indiana Supreme Court Monday answered the certified question sent to them by the U.S. District Court in New York about
what standard should be applied in determining whether a director is “disinterested” under Indiana Code Section
23-1-32-4(d).

To address Indiana’s growing prison population and increasing related costs, the state is partnering with The Pew Center
on the States and the Council of State Governments Justice Center for the first comprehensive review of the state’s
criminal code and sentencing policies since 1976.

When he was named to the Madison Circuit bench late last year, Judge Rudolph “Rudy” Pyle III made history in that
he became not only the county’s first African-American jurist but also the first Indiana Conference for Legal Education
Opportunities graduate to be elevated to the state’s judiciary at that level.

The National Black Law Students Association has honored Indiana Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard for his trailblazing work
in diversifying the legal community, largely with the creation of the Indiana Conference for Legal Education Opportunity

A LaPorte Superior judge made an impermissible modification to a divorced couple's settlement agreement by giving
the bank's lien on the family farm priority over the ex-wife's lien, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled today.

For those who weren't able to catch Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard's State of the Judiciary in person or want to
see it again, Indiana Public Broadcasting Stations around the state will air the speech next week.

The recession has hit Indiana's judiciary just as it has everyone else, but the state's chief justice said record
numbers of cases are slamming the courts and the General Assembly can help ease that caseload.

Two Indiana Supreme Court justices disagreed with their colleagues in not accepting an appeal, finding that a ruling from
the state's intermediate appellate court muddled caselaw on medical business and noncompete agreements, and significantly
jeopardizes the public's access to medical care.